By Richard Mather
He watched her
Take a piss,
Using
An online
Camera secreted
In the toilet pan.
She wiped herself
Back to front,
The ‘wrong way round’
(He thought).
She did this twice.
He masturbated
Hundreds
Of miles away
And came
In less
Than a minute.
Darkling thoughts
Gathered
Round him
Like crows,
(Which he batted
Away).
Now he had
Complete
Possession
Of the truth,
Truth obscenely
Pornographic.
The motto all truth
Must be seen
Means
Demystification
Of the body
– Even in its most
Private places.
She pulled
Up
Her knickers,
Straightened
Her skirt,
Concealing
Herself
From the
Hard
Militant
Gaze
Of his
Masculine eye.
Der Aufklärer
Wiped
Himself
Clean,
Looked around
To ensure he hadn’t
Been seen:
The scrutiny
Of the eye is
the voyeur’s
Alone.
All truth must
Be seen has its limit.
Everything must
Be seen, except
Himself.
Everything
Transparent
(Except his own activity),
Everything
Revealed
(But his own transgression) –
Compensation
For the death
Of God: the true
Universality.
In the
Pornographer's guise,
He goes
To the very limit.
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